By Robert Romano Since 2006, the White House incumbent party has overperformed in Congressional midterms compared to presidential approval ratings, with a string of unpopular presidents being sunk by issues including the Iraq War, the Great Recession, Russiagate and post-Covid inflation, and yet their political parties appearing […]

By Robert Romano The Congressional midterm elections of 2026 are just a few months away, and once they come and go, the 2028 presidential cycle to succeed President Donald Trump will begin almost immediately, with one of the biggest decision-makers being Vice President J.D. Vance. While Vance, […]

By Robert Romano Consumer inflation has once again begun outpacing average weekly earnings in April, 3.8 percent to 3.6 percent respectively over the past 12 months as oil and gasoline prices continue popping during the Iran War, according to the latest data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in what must be a worrying sign to […]

By Robert Romano “I think that we need an expanded playbook in a way that we invite all ideas that we have basically look that we say look this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. A no bad idea brainstorm is what I’d like […]

By Robert Romano The U.S. Supreme Court on May 15 shot down a last-ditch effort by Virginia Democrats to overturn a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that found Virginia’s redistricting to be unconstitutional, with the nation’s highest court refusing to even hear the case . As a result, instead of the new gerrymandered 10-1 Congressional District map Democrats were […]

By Robert Romano “Both countries agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.” That was the White House’s readout of the May 13 meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, conveying at least the U.S. understanding of how the meeting shaped up on the question of the Iran war — and the all-important fate of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The U.S. readout of […]

By Robert Romano Consumer prices popped up to 3.8 percent annual growth in April, according to the latest data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , amid a continued increase of oil-based energy including gasoline and fuel oil amid the Iran war. After increasing 21.2 percent in March as the U.S. and Israel engaged in major combat operations, […]

By Robert Romano The unemployment rate rose slightly in April, from 4.256 percent to 4.337 percent (rounding removed), as the number of unemployed increased 134,000 to 7.37 million, according to the latest data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is still lower than its previous high of 4.539 percent, and […]

By Robert Romano Democrats’ lead in the 2026 generic Congressional ballot dropped from 46 percent to 41 percent, to 44 percent to 41 percent, according to the latest Economist-YouGov poll taken May 1 to May 4 compared to April 24 to April 27 . Inside the poll, leading the partial slippage was drops in support for Democrats among men from 35 percent […]

By Robert Romano “[T]here is appropriated to the United States Secret Service, for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2029, for the pur17 poses of security adjustments and upgrades, including within the perimeter […]

By Robert Romano The 2026 partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security ended unceremoniously on April 30 in the House with unanimous passage of H.R. 7147 , legislation that had already passed the Senate that funds all agencies in the department except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

By Robert Romano The April 8 U.S.-Israel-Iran ceasefire appears to still be holding as major combat operations against Iran by the U.S. have been halted for almost a month now, while the U.S. Navy blockade that began April 13 remains in effect. Now, practically 60 days into […]

By Robert Romano The White House Correspondents Dinner shooter and would-be assassin Colin Allen’s manifesto has been published and it appears he was in part radicalized by the Congressionally-mandated release of the Jeffrey Epstein files under H.R. 4405 , where he at one point falsely accused President Donald Trump of being a “pedophile”. Only a couple years ago, […]

By Robert Romano Turns out President Donald Trump was right. Presidents really do need a White House ballroom to host events such as the White House Correspondents Association Dinner that turned into near-tragedy with the assassination attempt on President Trump by would-be assassin Cole Allen on April 25. Following […]

By Robert Romano Democrats in Virginia, although they won their redistricting referendum 1.57 million to 1.48 million, or 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent as of this writing, dramatically underperformed their 2025 voting levels in the commonwealth’s gubernatorial race that elected Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger with 1.976 million votes. Whereas, Republicans appear to have slightly exceeded former Lieutenant […]